“Contact often has the effect of hardening hostilities, not dissolving barriers. This effect is common in politics. When Jesse Jackson was running for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party, his percentage of the white vote was consistently highest in those states with the fewest blacks. Whites with the most actual contact with blacks were least likely to vote for him. The same was true in 2008 during Barack Obama’s Democratic primary campaigns. He won the highest percentages of the white vote in states such as Iowa, which has few blacks, and the lowest percentages in states with large black populations. Bernard N. Grofman of the University of California, Irvine has found a reliable political correlation: As the number of blacks rises, more whites vote Republican—and the less likely they are to vote for black candidates. It is whites whose knowledge about blacks is filtered by the media rather than gained first-hand who have the most favorable impression of them. The alleged benefits of diversity seem illusory to the people who actually experience it.” PoliticsRaceMediaVotingMedia ManipulationContact TheoryHostilities Book:White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century Source: White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century
“Peace will require the willingness to forsake the peace through force of arms in order to secure the peace for the future of mankind.” WarPeaceFutureCombatForsakeBattlesCarnageMen Of PeaceMen Of WarHostilities Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough